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“27 Club”

The 27 Club

The 27 Club
Recognized by the death of Kurt Cobain
Popular musicians, artists and/or actors that have died at age 27.

The 27 Club – Note

The 27 Club has become one of the most elusive and remarkably tragic coincidences in rock & roll history. The term became widely known after Kurt Cobain’s death in 1994, with rock fans connecting his age to that of Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Brian Jones, and Jimi Hendrix – though it was notable to fans in the early 1970s when those four visionaries died within just two years of each other.

The 27 Club: The Legendary Musicians Who All Died At 27

The 27 Club refers to all the legendary musicians who died at the age of 27. If you have never heard of the “27 Club”, it was the unofficial name come up with to describe the unbelievable number of famous musicians who died at the age of 27.

When Amy Winehouse passed away at age 27 in 2011, it attracted even more attention to the significance of the age. While the club has been largely connected to musicians, it has expanded since, as many young actors and artists have lost their lives due to everything from addiction to suicide to freak accidents.

Jimi Hendrix Taught The Band To Play

Jimi Hendrix Taught The Band To Play – Bio

James Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix
Born November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970
American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

Jimi Hendrix Taught The Band To Play – Note

Although his mainstream career spanned only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in the history of popular music, and one of the most celebrated musicians of the 20th century. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame describes him as “arguably the greatest instrumentalist in the history of rock music.”

Jimi Hendrix Taught The Band To Play – “27 Club”

The 27 Club has become one of the most elusive and remarkably tragic coincidences in rock and roll history.

The term became widely known after Kurt Cobain’s death in 1994, with rock fans connecting his age to that of Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Brian Jones and Jimi Hendrix – though it was notable to fans in the early 1970s when those four visionaries died within just two years of each other. When Amy Winehouse passed away at age 27 in 2011, it attracted even more attention to the significance of the age.

While the club has been largely connected to musicians, it has expanded since, as many young actors and artists have lost their lives due to everything from addiction to suicide to freak accidents.

Hendrix was the world’s highest-paid performer, he headlined the Woodstock Festival in 1969 and the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970 before his accidental death from barbiturate-related asphyxia on September 18, 1970, at the age of 27.

Jimi Hendrix Taught The Band To Play – “Sgt. Pepper”

There are many ways to celebrate a new album from a band you admire. You can have a listening party alone. You can have a listening party with friends. You can learn the title track in a couple days and play it onstage while the band you admire sits in the audience. That last one might be overkill. Unless you’re Jimi Hendrix.

Paul McCartney- Tells a funny story about Jimi Hendrix (9/28/14)

Paul McCartney- Jimi Hendrix story (9/28/14) at San Diego, PETCO PARK! Best night of my life (“:

It’s a loose, good-natured tribute that, as you might imagine, made quite an impression on the Beatles in attendance.

“It’s still obviously a shining memory for me,” McCartney recalled many years later, “because I admired him so much anyway, he was so accomplished.”

To think that that album had meant so much to him as to actually do it by the Sunday night, three days after the release. He must have been so into it, because normally it might take a day for rehearsal and then you might wonder whether you’d put it in, but he just opened with it. It’s a pretty major compliment in anyone’s book. I put that down as one of the great honours of my career.

McCartney frequently reminisces about that night. See him do so in the clip above from an August, 2010 concert.

Macca gushes over Hendrix’s solo, then tells the audience how Jimi – having thrown his guitar out of tune during the solo with his whammy bar dive-bombing – asked Eric Clapton to come onstage and retune for him.

Jimi hendrix – Sgt Peppers

jimi hendrix Live

“Nothing Left To Lose”

“Nothing Left To Lose – Janis Joplin

Janis Lyn Joplin
Born January 19, 1943 – Died October 4, 1970
American Singer, Songwriter, Music Arranger

“Nothing Left To Lose – “27 Club”

Joplin’s death in October 1970 at age 27 stunned her fans and shocked the music world, especially when coupled with the death just 16 days earlier of another rock icon, Jimi Hendrix, also at age 27.

This would later cause some people to attribute significance to the death of musicians at the age of 27, as celebrated in the ‘27 Club‘.

“27 Club” – Jean-Michel Basquiat

Jean-Michel Basquiat
Born December 22, 1960 – Died August 12, 1988
American Artist

“27 Club” – Jean-Michel Basquiat – Note

By 1986, Basquiat was a successful artist in this period, but his growing heroin addiction began to interfere with his personal relationships.

Despite an attempt at sobriety during a trip to Maui, Hawaii, he died on August 12, 1988, of a heroin overdose at his art studio on Great Jones Street in Manhattan’s NoHo neighborhood.

He was 27 years old.

“27 Club” – Jean-Michel Basquiat – “Untitled”

On May 18, 2017, at a Sotheby’s auction, Basquiat’s 1982 painting, also “Untitled” (created with oil stick and spray paint and depicting a skull), set a new record high for any U.S. artist at auction.

It sold for $110,500,000.

“27 Club” – Brian Jones

Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones
Born February 28, 1942 – Died July 3, 1969
Founder and Original Leader of the Rolling Stones

“27 Club” – Brian Jones – Note

Although he was originally the leader of what was supposed to be a blues-oriented band, Brian Jones’s fellow band members Mick Jagger and Keith Richards took over the band’s musical direction, especially after they became a successful songwriting team.

Jones developed a serious drug problem over the years and his role in the band steadily diminished.

The band asked Jones to leave the Rolling Stones in June 1969 and guitarist Mick Taylor took his place in the group. Jones died less than a month later by drowning in the swimming pool at his home on Cotchford Farm in Hartfield, East Sussex.

Rolling Stones talk about Brian Jones

Including a heartwarming tribute by Charlie Watts….. Interview from their world tour in 2003 for TOTP2 Copyright of the respective owners.